Question

I am using the codeigniter pagination library to page my search results. I am using a limit and an offset to generate the results.

I would like to know how, apart from in the pagination links, echo the number of the page the user is currently viewing.

For example;

You are currently viewing page X out of Y results.

How is this possible??

Answer 1

You could extend the Pagination class (system/libraries/Pagination.php).

Create a file called MY_Pagination.php and put it in application/libraries/

Add this code to your extend pagination class;

class MY_Pagination extends CI_Pagination {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function current_place() {
        return 'You are currently viewing page '.$this->cur_page.' out of '.ceil(($this->total_rows/$this->per_page)). 'results';
    }
}

Don’t forget to make sure the class extension prefix is set correctly to MY_ in the config.php (about line 109)

Then you can access it in your controller like;

$current = $this->pagination->current_place();

Which you can pass into your view.